Napier’s Art Deco Trust gives landmark building new chapter: Laura Vodanovich
For example, the ‘curb cuts’, which you see in footpaths to allow ease of wheelchair access, are useful and used by many others – for prams, wheeled...
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Napier’s Art Deco Trust moves house to War Memorial Women’s Rest rooms
The Women’s Rest opened in 1926, named as a memorial to those who perished in World War I (1914-18) but for use mainly by women in town, including toilets, a...
a movement comes of age
Photographs by Adam Štěch Adam Štěch has every architecture-lover’s dream job. The Prague-based magazine editor, curator and design historian spends a portion...
Winter Art Deco: A wet intro, but it’s fine and chilly for Napier festival’s big weekend event
The vagaries of winter weather seem to be controlling interest in the weekend, with national weather agency MetService having a “heavy rain watch” in place for...
One of Napier’s most prominent art deco buildings gets facelift
It was built after the 1931 Napier earthquake and opened in 1934 with an apple-green-coloured exterior. In recent weeks, owners Graeme McLean and Wendy...
Celebrating 100 years of Art Deco: India’s unique architectural legacy
Meet the people battling to save this vanishing legacy A hundred years ago, Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition that gave Art Deco its name. The movement would...
Art Deco at 100 – The Times of India
Meet the people battling to save this vanishing legacy A hundred years ago, Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition that gave Art Deco its name. The movement would...
